Five Tips To Stress Less During the Holiday Season

I’ve worked in the same office for six years now. And every October we get a head start on our Secret Santa, filling out forms of what we like and wish to get within the budget we’ve set. I can’t tell you how I relish in the fear in people’s eyes when I begin to […]

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Sunflowers & Apples

Here we are in the midst of decking the halls, and I’m over here in disbelief that it’s almost the middle of December! Where time goes, I’ll never know… Since I took a small break in the Fall from blogging, I wanted to share some photos of when we went to a sunflower field and […]

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Christmas Memories

This year, I’m not sure how it happened, but I got done shopping for gifts last month (or maybe October…). The tree went up early, the decorations are out, and as soon as the radio started playing Christmas music on the radio all day long, I was listening. If you’ve been following this blog for […]

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Throw Back Thursday

Here we are with January hanging on by a thread, and I’m still thinking of all the pictures and posts I didn’t get to write here on the blog before 2014 ended. I feel a smidge bad about it. So I figured I would take the opportunity to of course…catch up and post some pictures […]

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34th St & NYC

Last month was such a whirlwind month (literally had road trips three out of four weekends), that I feel like I didn’t truly savor the season like I usually do. But with it came a lot of fun experiences that included visiting with family and I wouldn’t have had it any other way. In fact, […]

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A Year In Review | 2014

If you ask me, 2014 went by pretty darn quickly! It feels like I blinked and even the Holiday season was gone. But here we are in lovely 2015, hoping it’ll bring us much happiness and personal growth. Going back through the pictures, I realized how many “firsts” I’ve had over the last year, such […]

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How to Save A Little On Gift Wrap Every Year

Somehow I did it. I’ve bought and wrapped all of this years Christmas gifts! Now all there is to do but wait until I get to hand them out on Christmas morning and see everyone’s smiling faces. Seeing all of them under the tree fills my heart with so much gratitude and joy that I’m […]

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Mulled Wine

This year marks the very first Christmas I’ve spent with my in laws! The Sellers’ have a fairly large family, however, we had a very low-key day with all of my husband’s siblings in other cities celebrating with their families. It was just David and I and his parents. His mom and I did a […]

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Snowed In | My December Tradition

I remember the day I got it. It was a cold day in November, newly released. My family and I had been meandering through a store that no longer exists. And there it was in all it’s glory. Snowed In, by Hanson. Sitting next to it was their first home movie on VHS, Tulsa, Tokyo, […]

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Christmas Mouse Haul

The moment I’ve waiting for all week finally happened – stepping foot back into Christmas Mouse and getting my hands on just a few things. For those of you not familiar with Christmas Mouse, I’m sure you can only guess by the name, but it’s a store that sells Holiday related items all year round. […]

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